Last week while snorkeling in Roatan, Hondoruas, I came face to face with a Conch. Not a shiny shell in a gift shop, but a moving creature, shuffling along the sea floor, munching on grasses and just ...

To take one example, the shiny, inner shell layer of some molluscs ... Previous attempts to copy the sturdy structure of mollusc shells had focused on creating new materials by assembling ...

Evolution by natural selection can help explain why shells became widespread among mollusks, but it cannot fully elucidate how an individual creature builds a skeleton as exquisite as, say ...

There is a huge variety of animals that are classified as mollusks, and what shell they make depends greatly on the specific species. Mollusks are slimy, delicate invertebrates that do not have an ...

One is the shell itself, (the skeleton) and the other one is essentially the group name for shelled marine mollusks, mostly snails and clams. - [José] The shell is there from minute one ...

That's right: They're cannibals. Moon snails drill holes in other mollusk shells to digest the tissues inside their prey. But this can take a long time. In fact, depending on size of the prey ...

By studying the shells of a particular mollusk, researchers have discovered a unique capability to channel light, comparable to the best fiber optics. The heart cockles of Venus (Corculum cardissa ...

For over a decade it has been possible to extract and sequence ancient DNA from empty mollusc shells up to tens of thousands of years old. However, these techniques have so far proven very ...

They found fossilized shells of a snail-like mollusk called Ecphora that lived in the mid-Miocene era--between 8 and 18 million years ago. Ecphora is known for an unusual reddish-brown shell color, ...